Monday Morning Quarterback
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
Someone who critiques decisions after the outcome is known, often with more confidence than they had beforehand. In engineering slang, the phrase warns against hindsight arrogance during postmortems and reviews.
In plain English: Someone who judges past decisions too confidently with the benefit of hindsight.
Example: "The postmortem lead shut down monday morning quarterback behavior quickly, steering the discussion back toward what evidence actually existed at the time of the decision."